How To Use Pavis In A Sentence
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With the other he seized the top of a wooden packing-box, and holding this in front of his chest and abdomen as a Kaffir would hold his pavise, or rawhide shield, to ward off a thrust from an assagai, he walked straight toward his adversary.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
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Meanwhile, to hold you for a while, here's the latest wonder painted for me by Jen Haley: a crossbowman's pavise in 54mm scale.
Four More Miniatures
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Yes, the veteran archer, as Elliot calls her; and Mr. Faulkner says, if she appears in character at all, it must be as Queen Elizabeth herself dancing a stately pavise to the sound of the little fiddle.
The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
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But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this!
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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The young bride and bridegroom had first to perform a stately pavise before the whole assembly in the centre of the floor, in which, poor young things, they acquitted themselves much as if they were in the dancing - master's hands.
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
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A pavis is a medieval shield of the sort made in Pavia. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Therefore it makes sense to give the crossbowmen a large shield, pavise, to hide behind.
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But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this!”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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A few ago, cade vizier an pavise from an collaborative misanthropy scraps who was soft disquietingly kashmiri a groundbreaking skink surveying ruff our exploited, faithfully burbly untoothed zairean.
Rational Review
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Moreover, at the evening's dance, when Margaret and Suffolk, Ferry and Yolande stood up for a stately pavise together, Sigismund came to
Two Penniless Princesses
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The shield itself or pavise was large, made of wood covered with skin, and surrounded with
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Beside her, as part of an alternating sequence of passive and active virtues, Fortitude is dressed for battle with mace and pavis in hand. 52 30
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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With the other he seized the top of a wooden packing-box, and holding this in front of his chest and abdomen as a Kaffir would hold his pavise, or rawhide shield, to ward off a thrust from an assagai, he walked straight toward his adversary.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon